********************************************************* THIS WAY OUT Rundown Program #565 (Distributed 01/25/99) ********************************************************* Opening Teases/Theme Music/Intro Continuity >......................................................... 1:00 SEGMENT #1 - NewsWrap: Clinton includes the State of the lesbigay Union [with soundbite]; a bill to add sexual orientation to the state hate crimes law is killed in Idaho, but a hate crimes law is still under consideration in Wyoming; Zimbabwe activists blast the law and the homosexual assaults sodomy sentence given to former president Canaan Banana; Britain`s "Bolton 7" appeal grossly indecent convictions they were given for consensual sex in a private home; the ACLU helps Maryland dump the last of its sodomy laws; the Pentagon reports a record number of discharges in the past year that top those that were issued prior to the adoption of the so-called "Don`t Ask, Don`t Tell" policy; activists are urgently calling for letters to Sweden`s Aliens Appeals Board in support of an Iranian gay man who faces deportation, and seemingly certain death, if he`s forced to return home; the Canadian government continues to grapple with equalizing a number of laws affecting same-gender couples; two gay men in Japan have celebrated what is believed to have been the first same-gender marriage ceremony in a Shinto shrine; and email activists take offense at "homosexual" in the Merriam-Webster-licensed America Online thesaurus [compiled and written by CINDY FRIEDMAN, with thanks to GRAHAM UNDERHILL, BRIAN NUNES, JASON LIN, MARTIN RICE, REX WOCKNER, CHRIS AMBIDGE, GREG GORDON & LUCIA CHAPPELLE, and anchored by LEO GARCIA and CINDY FRIEDMAN] >.............................................................................. >........................................ 9:25 SEGMENT #2 - Billboard for "Gay Power, Gay Politics" & "Fox Files" features [:10] + There have been mass gay and lesbian wedding ceremonies before, but on January 16th it was not the number of couples in the "holy union" but the abundance of supportive ministers that made news. This Way Out`s PAUL BARWICK [with production assistance by JAMIE MELTZER] reports from ELLIE CHARLTON and JEANNE BARNETT`s United Methodist Church nuptials in Sacramento, California, officiated by over 90 Church-defiant ministers [includes excerpts from the ceremony and comments by host pastor REV. DON FADO of St. Mark`s UMC of Sacramento; REV. RENAE EXTRUM-FERNANDEZ of 1st UMC in Walnut Creek, CA; REV. CECIL WILLIAMS of Glide Memorial UMC in San Francisco; RANDY MILLER, a layperson with Bethany UMC, San Francisco; and, of course, ELLIE and JEANNE] (intro music from "Chapel Of Love" by THE DIXIE CUPS) [6:05] >....................................................... 6:15 SEGMENT #3 - "TWO" I.D. by "Tales Of The City" author Armistead Maupin [:10] + Billboard for "Fox Files" feature [:20] + Just six months after the first U.S. March On Washington For Lesbian & Gay Rights, the "CBS Reports" April 1980 broadcast of "GAY POWER, GAY POLITICS" portrayed the "homosexual community" entirely through seemingly kinky sex-obsessed white gay men, and proposed that then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein owed her re-election to her capitulation to the demands of this politically-powerful group of perverts. Herewith an excerpt from that program [featuring co-producer GEORGE CRILE], and comments by political analyst PACEY MARKMAN, former Harvey Milk aide CLEVE JONES and "Tales Of The City" author ARMISTEAD MAUPIN [from "The Crotch-Level Camera", a 1980 documentary about the broadcast and reaction to it produced by LUCIA CHAPPELLE & GREG GORDON] (intro/outro music from "Dirty Laundry" written and performed by DON HENLEY) [5:15] >.............................................................................. >......................................... 5:45 SEGMENT #4 - Did you know that there are dangerous gay gangs roaming Los Angeles, that methamphetamines are given away free in New York`s queer sex clubs so that "patrons [can] have more sex for longer periods", or that Krazy Glue is commonly used in "bizarre procedures" by Miami transvestites, "who are neither gay nor lesbian"? The January 21, 1999 edition of the U.S. Fox TV network`s Fox Files featured a segment called "UNDERCOVER IN THE NIGHT", claiming to expose what the producers called a "gay underworld" of public drug- and alcohol-drenched unsafe deviant sex-addicted homosexual men, women and "sexually nomadic" transvestites. The program is being roundly condemned by activists, and is a sad reminder that sensationalism still sells. This Way Out`s STEVE PRIDE [with production assistance by CHRISTOPHER DAVID TRENTHAM] has excerpts from the broadcast [anchored by ARTHEL NEVILLE] and comments by WILLIAM HORN, Assistant Entertainment Media Director of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) (intro music from "We`re Here" from "The Ballad Of Little Mikey", written by Mark Savage and sung by MARK W. SMITH; outro music from the last verse of "Dirty Laundry" by DON HENLEY) >.............................................................................. >......... 5:05 CLOSING CREDITS/CONTINUITY >.............................................................................. >.......... 1:25 TOTAL PROGRAM TIME >.............................................................................. >........................... 28:55 -----------------------------Please note-------------------------------- Anyone with questions, suggestions, or NEWS stories is encouraged to email "T.W.O." Coordinating Producer Greg Gordon at: TWOradio@aol.com ------------------------------thanks! -------------------------------- STATION PROMO COPY ANNCR: NEXT TIME ON “THIS WAY OUT”, METHODIST MINISTERS LAUNCH THE BATTLE OF THE BLESSINGS, THE FOX FILES FLUB WITH THEIR "GAY UNDERWORLD" FIASCO, AND A REMINDER THAT GUTTER JOURNALISM CAN COME FROM EVEN MORE PRESTIGIOUS SOURCES ... CLINTON INCLUDES THE STATE OF THE LESBIGAY UNION, ZIMBABWE ACTIVISTS CONDEMN A HIGH-PROFILE SODOMY SENTENCE, BRITAIN`S "BOLTON 7" ARE BACK IN COURT, AND A JAPANESE SHINTO SHRINE GAY WEDDING MAY BE THAT COUNTRY'S FIRST ... THOSE STORIES AND MORE THIS WEEK ON “THIS WAY OUT: THE INTERNATIONAL LESBIAN AND GAY RADIO MAGAZINE”, _________________________________________________ [DAY and TIME] HERE ON _____________________________________ [STATION] ==========================*============================== Some "THIS WAY OUT" operating expenses are funded by grants from THE GILL FOUNDATION, THE C.P. ESTÉS GUADALUPE FOUNDATION, and through charitable donations from listeners worldwide. Special thanks to COMMUNITY CLOUT Visa cardholders who designate THIS WAY OUT as their choice of nonprofits to receive a percentage of their chargecard purchases. 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